Improvement in cooking-stoves



RL LITTLE. Cooking Stove.

Patented Jun 21. 1864.

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It. LITTLE, OF CANTON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 13,2 [6, dated June 21, 1864.

T 0 an whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, B. LITTLE, of Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CookingStoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of said cooking stove. Fig.2represents avertical cross-section through the same. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section through the same.

My invention relates to the arrangement of the oven and flues of a cooking-stove by which I am enabled to have the oven below the firechamber, the gases from the fire circulating around the sides as well as the top and'bottom of the oven, heating it to an even temperature on all sides and affecting a great saving in the amount of fuel to be consumed.

In the stoves where the oven is located directly over the fire-chamber its bottom is heated to such a degree as to burn the article placed therein, while the sides remain comparatively cool. Those difficulties are entirely obviated by my arrangement.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Arepresents the fire-chamber. B represents the oven. 0 is the upper flue, between the top of the oven and the top of the stove. The heated gases from the fire pass through this.

D represents the side flues, through which the gases pass from flue 0, they being prevented from escaping through the pipe-flue E by the damper F, which closes the passage between the flue G and the pipe-flue.

facility.

G represents oblique partitions in the lower flue, H, and around which the gases from the flues D pass into flue I, as represented by arrows. By using these oblique partitions G, I obtain the angular flues H, by which the gases as they pass into flue I are concentrated at the frontend of the oven, and in escaping toward the pipeflue E they pass under the entire length of the bottom of the oven and expend the greater part of their heat.

The heated gases, circulating thus through the flues G, D, H I, and E, as above described, impart an even heat to all parts, sides as well as top and bottom of the oven, and expending in their circuituous route the greater part of their heat, the oven is heated by means of a comparative small amount of fuel, and is thus saving to a great degree.

The oven B opens in front, and is thus made easy of access and can be managed with great The fire-chamber A is located above the front end of the oven and its door M is at the side of the sto\ e, and the ashes from the a. LITTLE.

In presence of- J. CREVOISIR, J r., MARTIN DEUBLE. 

